Letters to the Editor
otis p spunkmeyer
Published Letters: 3
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Don't sue...
[Read the article: A fellow law student broke my nose and joked about it on Facebook]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As a lawyer, I've seen how lawsuits become the repositories for people's anger and emotional traumas. Lawsuits don't help in venting or redressing rage and hurt feelings, they only exacerbate them. If you want to keep picking at this scab for the next two or three years, keeping this wound fresh and open, then go ahead and sue.
I would complain to the state bar, though. That seems appropriate to me.
Good luck with everything! Please, please get some counseling to deal with your anger. Justifiable as it may be, you can't let it consume and destroy you.
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Becoming a lawyer has been great for my music career
[Read the article: I'm a jazz pianist, nearly 50, and I need to make some real money!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm also a musician who got fed up with scraping by (albeit at age 27) and decided to take a different route. I figured by going to law school and becoming a lawyer I'd be able to do whatever music I wanted without having to worry about taking those $100 gigs with the crappy singers. (Boy, do I feel your pain there!)
I'm pleased to say that so far, it's worked out exactly as I had hoped. I have money to put into my music studio, and fortunately a legal job I (mostly) enjoy that doesn't (usually) keep me in the office 60-70 hours a week, leaving me time to pursue various music projects. Do I sometimes wish I could leave the workaday world and focus back on the music full-time? Sure. And perhaps someday I will. But I remember what it was like having no money. I'm here to tell you, having money is definitely better.
What Cary says about the importance of letting go of your belief that you are your music and nothing more is right on the mark. I say find something lucrative that interests you and pursue that for a while. The music will always be there. (But no manual labor! Watch those hands!)
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Old saying:
[Read the article: I'm a high-school dropout in law school and I feel like an impostor!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]People who get A's in law school become law professors;
People who get B's in law school become judges.
People who get C's in law school become rich.
GOOD LUCK ON THE BAR! I have a feeling you'll do just fine. But if you don't, please try to keep in mind that there are plenty of successful lawyers out there who didn't pass on the first try.